Mobile Satellite System

[MachWun]

I know you were specific about satellite but I cut the cord years ago and had to solve media in the RV for rainy days and at night when everyone else goes to bed. When I cannot get Skyroam to work, I have a laptop loaded with shows and movies that I stream through a home router I keep in the rig. Works great and no worry about trees.

[Pampaints2]

I'm interested in knowing what brand this 18" antenna is and where I can find it please.

[Rivercityjeff]

Another consideration for me is the Pathway X2 is bigger than the Tailgater and might not fit into storage of the Imagine line. So when the Imagine arrives in a couple of weeks we will likely go with the KING DTP4900 DISH Tailgater Pro Premium.


Dave

Dave, FYI our Pathways X2 antenna fits under the bed of a 2600RB. I believe your 2670MK will have similar under bed storage.

[DennisK]

I'm another Pathway X2 fan. We had a traveler roof mount on our class A. I greatly prefer the Pathway. You can move it away from the trees.

[Tim2542]

We used the Pathway x2 for a few years and it worked well but with the limitations inherent with one satellite at a time reception. We installed a RF mogul system and have been very happy with it. This gives us the same service you would get at home, full dvr, 5 tuner record capacity etc
Add the dish for my rv ap so you can spot the satellites while you park and seldom or never have an issue with reception.
Agree on the local sports no longer available but we just added the extra innings package and good to go.

[Hakker]

I have a Reflection TT so I have room in the bed of my truck. I mounted a winegard trav'lr dish on a folding table from Lowes, added a handle and wheels. I can now pull it out and place it where I need it and can get 3 sats at the same time with HD. I can load/unload it myself but it is easier with the DW helping. If we are parking just overnight I have a tailgater that I use. This is all with the Dish system which we have at home. As stated above it only costs $7/month per receiver to add the camper and I can start/stop the service at any time. We are getting ready to leave in two weeks for a month trip to Kansas and Oklahoma so I will activate the receivers next week.
The trav'lr dish is expensive but I get good reception even where the portable can't get a signal. It is rare not to get a signal and if I don't, I just move the dish to where I can. I've been doing this for 4 years without any major problems. BTW the people at winegard will tell you that the tra'vlr CAN NOT be mounted to be portable but with a little ingenuity it's no problem.

[Chuck.N]

Sooner than later Elon’s Star link will be available. Word has it they will be making mobile systems ie for the campers etc that will work of your plan at home. I placed my reservation with them already. Speed testing looks amazing with the growth potential seeming to be exponential.
I’ll keep ya posted but the ability to have internet connectivity using my streaming accounts as if I was home seems to be a game changer should it come to fruition.

I have the Starlink system, and it requires a lot of open space overhead, with a northeast view. Today, you're limited to about a 10 mile radius from the home address you give them. I've tried it further away, and it doesn't work. The last conversation I had with them (about a month ago), they have no plans to make it portable. Could that change? It's possible, but unlikely due to how they balance the load on the satellites.

That said, when it work, it works great. If you have a lot of open sky, I'd recommend it for home use.

Edit: we recently swapped over to Nomad Internet, in conjunction with a WeBoost amplifier. It's cellular based, so if you have a small native 4G signal, you have unlimited internet. I'm still evaluating it, so can't give a thorough review yet.

[fez111]

If you already have Dish, that is your best option for satellite for the dollar because you can tack on another receiver inexpensively and pay for only the months you use it. You will just need to buy your receiver and Dish. We use a Wally and Winegard carryout.

That's more or less what we did. One summer we cam home from vacation and found all of our home electronics fried from a lightening strike. Our telephone connection box was 30 feet from the house burnt black. We had dish at the time and figured it was a great time to upgrade to HD (Insurance $$ helped). Some time later we added another HD receiver upstairs, but on the same antenna. Lightbulb. My ide of roughing it has always been a black and white TV, and since I pay for Dish whether I'm home or not, I bought a second HD dish off Ebay (eastern arc). I made a tripod out of electrical conduit and minerallac fittings ($35 in parts). We now take our upstairs receiver with the portable dish always in the RV. If there are not a lot trees between your dish and the satellites you can get great reception. My brother bought a "tailgater" dish, but the dish reception area is very small and he needs nearly no trees at all to get every satellite.

[DennisK]

We used the Pathway x2 for a few years and it worked well but with the limitations inherent with one satellite at a time reception. We installed a RF mogul system and have been very happy…
Add the dish for my rv ap so you can spot the satellites while you park and seldom or never have an issue with reception.

I don’t understand the need for the “dish for my RV” ap. Doesn’t the Mogul automatically search and lock onto the satellites? We had a Travel’r on our class A and I just turned on the control unit for the dish and it completed the setup automatically.

[Second Chance]

I don’t understand the need for the “dish for my RV” ap. Doesn’t the Mogul automatically search and lock onto the satellites? We had a Travel’r on our class A and I just turned on the control unit for the dish and it completed the setup automatically.

The app is necessary to change your locals when you move. The antenna will find the satellites, but if you have moved out of the cone for the locals in your last location, you have to change this on the servers in order to have locals authorized in your new location (it's a simple process). Local channels are market-specific. If you don't have the locals package, no need to worry.

Rob